📢 New blog alert! MHP PPIE Coordinator Susannah Strong shares how the MHP PPIE Steering Group grew from the ground up and what it’s achieved in its first year. Read here: www.mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/blog/mhp-ppi... #PPIE #MentalHealthResearch #LivedExperience

MHP PPIE Steering Group: from the ground up | Mental health platform

Susannah Strong is PPIE coordinator for the MHP. Picking up where Vanessa Pinfold’s blog Lived experience at the heart closes, Susannah tells us about the work which the MHP Steering Group has…

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🎉Thanks for joining us on “Discover the Hubs” Week 🎉 🎬 Now meet our Hub Leaders on YouTube: youtube.com/@UKRIMentalHealthPlatform/playlists Thanks to our @uoe-sps.bsky.social Masters interns, Yuchen Zhao & Sarah Carmichael, for creating this content. #DiscoverMHPHubs #MentalHealthResearch

Social Health Hub How where we’re born, live, work & age shape SMI. 🌟 Highlights: new place-based social health indicators, resources for researchers & exploring social prescribing. 🔗www.mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/blog/social-health-third-pillar-health #DiscoverMHPHubs #MentalHealthResearch

@hubmetpsych.bsky.social Bringing together researchers, clinicians & lived-experience experts to drive innovation in metabolic psychiatry. 🌟 Focus: genomics, data science, biomarkers, metabolic intervention, lived experience. 🔗 metabolicpsychiatryhub.com #DiscoverMHPHubs #MentalHealthResearch

ImmunoMIND Hub Uncovering immune & metabolic pathways to develop new therapies for SMI 🌟 Highlights: MHRA-approved cardio-metabolic risk tool (TP2) and peer-reviewed publications. 💬 Co-produced with PWLE 🔗 mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/research-hubs/immunomind #DiscoverMHPHubs #MentalHealthResearch

@datamind.bsky.social 👉Driving better mental health outcomes: ethical, transparent and inclusive data use. 🔍 FAIR access, collaboration & tackling inequalities. 💬 Our SRAG lived-experience group helps shape research 🔗 datamind.org.uk #DiscoverMHPHubs #MentalHealthResearch

🧠 @complexemotionshub.bsky.social We’re improving care for people with complex emotions, guided by lived-experience experts. 🌟How everyday triggers shape intense emotions, working to reduce stigma, drive new research. 🔗 complexemotions.co.uk #DiscoverMHPHubs #MentalHealthResearch

🧠 @braingenhub.bsky.social We’re exploring how genes, environment & development shape severe mental illness - combining brain imaging, genomics & lived experience to drive real-world impact. Find out about B-SPRINT study: 🔗 ncmh.info/bsprint #DiscoverMHPHubs #MentalHealthResearch

This week you'll meet 🔹@braingenhub.bsky.social, Wales 🔹@complexemotionshub.bsky.social, Sheffield 🔹@datamind.bsky.social, Swansea 🔹ImmunoMIND, Cambridge 🔹@hubmetpsych.bsky.social, Edinburgh 🔹Social Health Hub, London #DiscoverMHPHubs

🎉"Discover The Hubs” Week🎉 We’re reintroducing our Hubs and highlighting our mission to advance understanding of severe mental illness. 🧠 5 research programmes + 1 data hub, funded by @ukri.org and coordinated in Edinburgh. #DiscoverMHPHubs 🔗 mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/who-we-are

Read reflections from a PhD student from @hubmetpsych.bsky.social on the MHP Research Summit - a day full of enthusiasm, collaboration & inspiring science. 👉 www.mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/blog/mhp-res... #MentalHealthResearch #MHPSummit2025 #WorldMentalHealthDay

One of our Lived Experience Experts shares reflections from the MHP Research Summit on #WorldMentalHealthDay - a day of optimism, caffeine & connection, where research met real life. Read their blog 👉 www.mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/blog/mhp-res... #MHPSummit2025 #MentalHealthResearch

MHP Research Summit: A Lived Experience Perspective | Mental health platform

Acronyms: MHP: Mental Health Platform | PPI: Patient Public Involvement | SMI: Severe Mental Illness | BPD: Borderline Personality Disorder

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Closing plenary at #MHPSummit2025: Prof Paul Harrison on “From Big Data to Biology: Cognitive Impairment After COVID-19 Infection.” A powerful end to #WorldMentalHealthDay, connecting data, biology & mental health research. #MentalHealthResearch

🔹 Final Core Session: Social Health – The Third Pillar of Health. Our relationships and connections are vital to wellbeing — discover how the Social Health Hub is redefining mental health research 👇 www.mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/blog/social-... #MHPSummit2025 #WorldMentalHealthDay

Social Health: third pillar of health | Mental health platform

One of our Hub leads, Prof Jennifer Lau, co-authored an article this year describing how social health should be considered alongside physical health and mental health, and how this could help to…

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🔹 Afternoon Core Session: @hubmetpsych.bsky.social on The Metabolism and Mental Health Connection. Discover how metabolism shapes mind and mood and share your insights to guide future research 👇 www.metabolicpsychiatryhub.com/takepart #MHPSummit2025 #WorldMentalHealthDay

Take Part — The Hub for Metabolic Psychiatry

We are carrying out a research study to better understand whether changes to metabolism are connected to future changes in clinical outcomes in people with severe mental health conditions.

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🔹 Afternoon Core Session: ImmunoMIND reveals how immunity, metabolism & mental health connect. Read their review on immuno-metabolic depression, uncovering the biology behind mood disorders: www.mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/news/underst... #MHPSummit2025 #MentalHealthResearch #WorldMentalHealthDay

Understanding immuno-metabolic depression | Mental health platform

Researchers from ImmunoMIND recently published a review of the research about a form of depression called immuno-metabolic depression.

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⚡ Happening now at #MHPSummit2025! ECR Lightning Talks: 6 rapid-fire, 3-minute presentations from winners in: 🔬 Molecular Psychiatry 💬 Social & Emotional Health 💻 Data, Digital & AI A showcase of the next generation of #MentalHealthResearch talent. #WorldMentalHealthDay

🔹 Core Session: DATAMIND explores how data science transforms mental health research & policy. Check out PODMIND — their podcast hosted by Marcos del Pozo Banos, highlighting the people driving progress: datamind.org.uk/learning-hub... #MHPSummit2025 #MentalHealthResearch

Learning Hub - Datamind

At DATAMIND, we're committed to enhancing knowledge and empowering people in the field of Mental Health Data Science and beyond.

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🎤 The first Core Session at the #MHPSummit2025 is underway! We’re hearing from three MHP research Hubs — starting with @braingenhub.bsky.social, uncovering how genetics and brain data can deepen our understanding of mental illness. 🎥 Watch here:

Meet the Brain and Genomics Hub

The Brain and Genomics Hub is one of six new research hubs that make up the Mental Health Platform funded by UK Research and Innovation. The platform was established to accelerate progress towards…

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The #MHPSummit2025 opens on #WorldMentalHealthDay with Prof Dame Til Wykes (King’s College London) on “From Subjects to Participants to Co-production.” Lived experience is at the heart of what we do. 👉 www.mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/blog/lived-e... #MentalHealthResearch

Lived experience at the heart | Mental health platform

McPin is a specialist mental health research charity – unique in its focus on peer research, coproduction and patient and public involvement & engagement (PPI&E) as a way to improve mental health…

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It’s #WorldMentalHealthDay 💙 We’re in Edinburgh for the first-ever MHP Research Summit 2025, bringing together researchers, clinicians & people with lived experience to advance understanding of severe mental illness. Follow along for highlights! #MHPSummit2025 #MentalHealthResearch

ECR Workshop Proteomics & Mental Health happening today at the Edinburgh Futures Institute! ECRs are exploring large-scale proteomics to uncover biomarkers & causal pathways in mental health led by @mqmentalhealth.bsky.social & @datamind.bsky.social #ECR #MentalHealthResearch #WorldMentalHealthDay

⏳ Registration closes next week! – only 13 tickets left for the MHP Research Summit (10th Oct | Edinburgh) Keynotes & partner-led sessions: full programme live: rebrand.ly/mhp-summit-p... @mqmentalhealth.bsky.social @datamind.bsky.social, @catapultnetwork.bsky.social, @mcpinfoundation.bsky.social

⏳ Last chance to register! MHP Research Summit (10th Oct | Edinburgh) – few tickets left & close to selling out. 👀Detailed programme now live: rebrand.ly/mhp-summit-p... #MHPSummit2025

🌟Work in Digital, Data & AI in mental health? Join the MHP Industry Alliance! Apply👉 rebrand.ly/mhp-industry... Some members may be invited to datamind.bsky.social’s November London event Find out more👉https://rebrand.ly/DATAMIND-industry-nov25

⏳ 1 month left to register! ECR Workshop hosted by @mqmentalhealth.bsky.social & @datamind.bsky.social: Proteomics & Mental Health 📅 9th Oct | 📍 Edinburgh Futures Institute Hands-on training & expert speakers. More than half of tickets already sold! 👉Secure yours now: rebrand.ly/ecr-workshop

⏳ 1 month left to register! MHP Research Summit (10th Oct | Edinburgh) – tickets going fast. Keynotes, partner-led sessions & networking. 👉 Sign up before 3rd Oct: rebrand.ly/research-sum... #MHPSummit2025

📅 9th Oct 2025 | 📍 Edinburgh Futures Institute 🚨 ECR Workshop hosted by @mqmentalhealth.bsky.social & @datamind.bsky.social : Proteomics & Mental Health — over half of the tickets sold! 1️⃣ Registered but not paid? Confirm now. 2️⃣ Not registered? Sign up + pay today. 👉 rebrand.ly/ecr-workshop

📢 Abstract submission is now closed — but you can still join the first MHP Research Summit @mqmentalhealth.bsky.social! 🗓️ 10th Oct 2025 | 📍 Edinburgh Hear keynotes, partner-led sessions & more. 👉 Register & book your ticket: rebrand.ly/research-sum... #MHPSummit2025

🚨 Deadline today! Don’t miss your chance to present at the first MHP Research Summit (10th October 2025, Edinburgh). Register and submit an abstract. Share your work in Molecular Psychiatry, Social & Emotional Health, or Data, Digital & AI. 👉 rebrand.ly/research-sum...